Informational Texts Drama LION KING Complex Themes &Visual Imagery
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Massachusetts Common Core Frameworks: 25.4 As a group, develop and use rubrics to improve organization and presentation of written and oral projects. 8.RL.5 Identify significant literary devices, such as symbolism or irony, which define an author’s, illustrator’s or film director’s style and explain how the style affects the mood and tone of a work. 8.RL.7 Analyze the beliefs and assumptions of the narrator/speaker in a literary work, or a central character in a film and provide details to support the analysis. 8.RL.8 Provide relevant evidence and examples to support an interpretation of a text, performance, or film. Massachusetts Frameworks
MA Frameworks:
Making Connections 9.5 Relate a literary work to artifacts, artistic creations, or historical sites of the period of its setting.
Writing 19.22 Write and justify a personal interpretation of literary, informational, or expository reading that includes a topic sentence, supporting details from the literature, and a conclusion. 20.0 Consideration of Audience and Purpose 20.4 Select and use appropriate rhetorical techniques for a variety of purposes, such as to convince or entertain the reader.
Revising 21.6 Revise writing to improve organization and diction after checking the logic underlying the order of ideas, the precision of vocabulary used, and the economy of writing. 21.7 Improve word choice by using a variety of references (dictionaries, thesauruses, dialects, …). 22.0 Standard English Conventions 22.8 Use knowledge of types of sentences (simple, compound, complex), correct mechanics (comma after introductory structures), correct usage (pronoun reference), sentence structure (complex sentences, properly placed modifiers), and standard English spelling when writing and editing.
Organize Ideas in Writing 23.10 Organize information into a coherent essay or report with a thesis statement in the introduction, transition sentences to link paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Research 24.4 Apply steps for obtaining information from a variety of sources, organizing information, documenting sources, and presenting research in individual projects: • Differentiate between primary and secondary sources • Differentiate between paraphrasing and using direct quotes in a report • Document information and quotations and use a consistent format for footnotes and/or endnotes • Use standard bibliographic format to document sources
Massachusetts Frameworks: Informational Texts a. Identify Main Topics and Ideas b. Identify the Connections to People and Places c. Identify the Central Idea d. Author's Point-of-view e. Author's Argument/Purpose f. An Opposing Point-of-view g. Media Used (Film, Advertisement, Text) h. Vocabulary: Identify Mood, Tone and Meaning i. Writing Style: Identify Paragraph Structure
Author’s Style: It is the writer’s unique way of communicating ideas. Elements contributing to style include word choice, sen- tence length, tone, figurative language, and use of dialogue.
Tone: Tone can be serious, humorous, sarcastic, playful, ironic, ...: It is an expression of a writer’s attitude toward a subject. Unlike mood, which is intended to shape the reader’s emotional response, tone reflects the feelings of the writer.
Setting: It is the time and place of the action in a novel.
Mood: It is the feeling or atmosphere (setting) the writer creates for the reader. The use of connotation, details, dialogue, im- agery, figurative language, foreshadowing, setting, and rhythm can help establish mood.
Imagery: Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for the reader. Most images are visual, but imagery may appeal to the senses of smell, hearing, taste, or touch.
Character Development: The method a writer uses to develop characters. There are four basic methods:
1. The writer may describe the character’s physical characteristics and appearance
2. A character’s nature may be revealed through his/her own speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions
3. The speech, thoughts, feelings or actions of other character’s can be used to develop a character
4. The narrator can make direct comments about another character
Plot: The plot is the action or sequence of events in a story. Plot is usually a series of related incidents that build to develop the story. There are five basic elements in a plot line: conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.
Theme: The theme is a central idea, primary action, or abstract concept that is made concrete in person, action, and image. Sometimes the theme is directly stated in the work, and some- times it is given indirectly. There may be more than one major theme in a given work, but there can be minor themes.
Symbol: A symbol is a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself. Symbols can succinctly communicate complicated, emotionally rich ideas.
Figurative Language: For example: author’s use simile, metaphor, personification, and/or hyperbole, etc., to convey a deeper meaning to the audience. Figurative Language is language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning of the words.
We read the Mexican myth, The Creation of Music and learned how important music is to that culture and the different ways in which people experience music throughout the world.
Think about the possibility of writing a myth about music. Down the hall in room 207, Mr. Correia has suggested to his students that they might choose their favorite musician and transform that musician into the god of their music myth. Watch the following clip and learn how music transformed the Broadway production of The Lion King, a myth about the balances and responsibilities of life; the sun-filled savannah and shadowy corners in life. Will you choose a music myth???
What would the gods of your Music Myth look like? How would the interact with others? What kinds of imagery would you use to give vivid details to the setting of your myth? What cultural influences would you use to shape the imagery? What would your audience learn?
What mythical elements would you include? What excitement and knowledge will you share with your audience?
Understanding the Music Effect: The Disney Lion King Education Series
a. Story Origins: TRANSCRIBED FROM THE 1994 Disney DVD - Special Features:
1. The story connects itself to primal stories.
You are entering in that world that has always dealt with large, basic principles and basic abstracts.
The more you try to make it authentic and true and deeper and more resonant, the more it is going to be like the great myths that have endured and resonate now.
These are fundamental elements of the human experience: betrayal, redemption, fitting in.
2. Because we were intentionally trying to work in the realm of archetypes, I think, then, as soon as you do that you see how it relates to other great mythical
